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25 years on the PGA Tour and a lifetime member of the PGA Tour and PGA of America, Jay Delsing brings you his perspective on one of the world's greatest games as a professional golfer and network broadcaster.

It's the game that connects the pros and the average Joes brought to you by Whitmore Country Club. Golf with Jay Delsing is now on 101 ESPN. Jay Delsing, I'm your host, Jay. You're with my buddy, John. And I can't wait to do this show, Pearly. I cannot wait to do this show. I'm so excited to talk about the Masters, talk about Tiger, but I love the fact that you are down there witnessing it firsthand. I love that you're bringing that to the table. Yeah, I'm just so fortunate. But let's, you know, we format the show like we format a round of golf. So the opening segment is the On the Range segment. It's brought to you by 20 Minutes of Fitness.

20 Minutes of Fitness, just 20 minutes once a week, and it works for me. Well, man, where do we even start? First of all, all the things that I've said about Tiger and his injuries and everything. You're taking them all back?

Yeah, I take them all back, just like some of the things that I quote on this show that aren't accurate. I never thought he'd win again. I never thought he'd win a major again. And just watching him do his thing yesterday was, I mean, what words do we use? Well, I just think it's fantastic when you're saying, as far as counting him out, how many times can all of us think of the times where this isn't going to happen, this isn't going to happen again?

I can remember early, early days. I think I've mentioned on the show before, I was sitting at the PGA Golf Show when Tiger first got his contract with Nike and throwing it out there. I believe the number was 60 million and literally sitting with a Nike guy laughing, going like, what is wrong with you people? And it probably turned out to be like a penny on a dollar for them. As it turned out, it's probably the best deal in the world. Tiger got himself screwed on that deal. There's no doubt.

I mean, what do you think about how the Nike do in the last group yesterday with everybody who was wearing a Nike hat and a Nike emblem on their crest? Well, let's get a couple of the things. We're going to get with our friend Justin Hoagland with Golf Tech, as we do on every show. I want to tell you about Valentino Dixon, May 3rd at the Angad Arts Hotel. It's presented by Arts Unleashed. It's going to be an evening where I get to interview Valentino. We're going to have some of his art there. The hotel down there is absolutely spectacular. So reach out to me at jdelsongolf.com if you're interested in tickets or supporting it.

I think it's $100 to get in. It's an open bar. There's some great food. But more importantly, you're going to get to see some of his artwork. And if you haven't seen that hotel, you've got great stories in a great facility.

There's going to be a lot of fun things going on there. I mentioned Justin Hoagland. Let's go to Justin right now. Justin Hoagland is the city manager and fellow PGA professional down at Golf Tech. Justin's going to talk to us a little bit about how much time to devote between short game and long game. Hey, thanks, Jay. This is a really important one for all golfers.

It has to be. You know, look, based on my own observations over the last 20 years of teaching the game, so many times I've seen players who have good swings and are pretty good from tee to green. And then when you see them, though, from 75 yards and in their chipping, their pitching, their putting, there's a real disparity, isn't there? So in general, I've found that it takes a lot longer to develop a good short game than it does a good long game.

Now, not all not all players, but most not many players I know of are opposite at that or at that. So, look, according to game golf technology, you know, one of the stats that that that is out there is that forty one point three percent of our strokes that we make on the golf course are from putts. And as for the rest of the short game from 100 yards and in that number balloons to 60 percent. Well, let me just say this, though, eliminate or take out the gimme putts from three and a half feet or less than a lot of people take for granted.

And that 60 percent figure is less meaningful. So remove the short putts that are rarely missed and shots from 100 or 100 yards are in account for more like 40 to 47 percent of all shots. So, look, I prefer a good balance, but I tip the scales toward short game much more than than long game in most situations for most players.

Quickest way, of course, to shave the strokes. And lastly, let me just say that there's four good reasons why short game is the best tool for for game improvement. Number one, as you know, Jay, that pros spend a lot longer on the range with short irons and short shots than they do a longer one. Number two, they hit it closer, which makes them better putters. Number three, they spin the ball better, which is controlling the shots better in and around the green and on the short shots with the loftier club. And a number four, they just have accurate short iron miss it. Right. They eliminate green side trouble easier.

So those things we can take into consideration when when working on on our game, especially inside 100 yards. And that's how to improve your golf game. Thanks, Justin.

That's great stuff, Justin. Thanks for joining us. I know you've got to be just as excited as we are with this Masters that's on tap. They do have to be excited about that because how many more people are going to get jacked up about golf?

Here you go again. Tiger brought all this excitement to the game. I'm going to get my years wrong.

20 years ago, is it now? And had those years where he was just kind of making things happen. You always see people talking about the TV ratings or whatever they are double when he shows up, which is amazing to me. I watch these events regardless, but I guess so many people, if Tiger's not playing, they're not going to watch. He just put a injection of adrenaline and excitement into the world of golf. He absolutely did. And one of the things I mean that we've we've got to mention is the records.

You know, the historical perspective here. This is his 81st win, Pearl. He's won victory behind a victory total that never gets mentioned. Sam Snead won 82 golf tournaments.

Tiger's got 81. How many would you? Here's what I want to ask you. How many? Is it a hard question? Most likely. That's coming from me.

It's got to be relatively stupid and easy for you. How many victories and majors does Tiger win without the snafu of 2009? That's part of the game, is a snafu. Which snafu are you talking about? The personal snafu? I'm talking about all the personal stuff.

Oh, personal stuff. Yeah, but I mean, you know whether it's his complete crash and burn or it's marital issues or it's financial issues. I mean, all those guys, all you guys, faced all of those different challenges. That's part of the beast of the tour, but it also happens to us regular folk in jobs and stuff. We've got to just not perform in our jobs on the course.

We've got to kind of make the whole thing, everything pulled together. So I know if everything would have gone perfect for him, I have no idea. He would have blown it all away and nobody would have ever accomplished anything compared to Tiger again. It's true. I think he would have had 20 to 25 majors and he'd have had 150 wins.

And I really do. I mean, he was winning in a clip of like six, seven tournaments a year. His winning percentage was at 26 points. Almost 27% of the time he teased it up, he won. Because I don't know that most people realize, previous to Tiger, I think the best winning percentage was just under 10%. And it was? Nicholas. Great.

And so you think, wait a second, you're telling me the best guy ever previous to Tiger is winning one out of 10 times or actually not quite? Yeah. And the guy behind him, by the way, is about 2%.

Oh, it is about 2%. It is. It's just amazing.

The flair to which he did it, the emotion with his children, the different, I mean, it's just spectacular. So let's recap a little bit of the week for me. Yeah, but I want to hear your perspective of being on the ground. Obviously, you know, the tournament was last week, there's been a gazillion people talking about a gazillion things, but you were on the ground.

What are some things you picked up from that you can share with us as far as atmosphere goes? And somehow we got to talk about number 12 because it still makes absolutely no sense to me how the best players in the world keep hitting it in the water from 150 yards. I understand it's a tough hole, but for the record, I got to play that hole and I knocked it on the green and I made power almost made birdie just for the record. Did you get a video of that?

No. Okay, so... And there was not a million... Allegedly poorly hit the 12th green. Oh, no, no, I have witnesses, but I was not in front of millions of people and everything, but I'll tell you what, my heart was skipping a beat when I was out there because it's such a cool shot. You said, this is my only chance in life to hit this dang green.

Exactly. And I want to hit it. Let's go back and we'll cover the... No, I want to talk about me hitting the green. I don't want to talk about you hitting the green. No, we'll go back and talk about the 12th in a little bit.

Yeah. But first of all, such a pro Tiger atmosphere. I mean, you know, DJ comes up, he's number two in the world. He's the highest ranked player that, you know, Justin Rose was number one, missed the cut. You've got all of this leaderboard.

When have you seen a leaderboard like that in the... Never. I mean, there were a couple of people missing. Spieth wasn't on there, McElroy, but I mean, in terms of everybody else, Koepka, here's a guy that's won three of the last seven majors and one of those, he didn't get the plan because of an injury. And he's right there. And with a little more luck on Saturday, Koepka's got a... Koepka, you know, makes four more putts. You could tell he hit those putts where he wanted to. But watching it, it was like divine intervention.

It really was. You know, there's that energy that the crowds bring and things like that. So that tips the scales in your opinion.

It does. It's like... And why is that? I get it. I like Tiger.

I'm definitely a Tiger fan. I'm bought in. But why is it... What is it, Jay? Two to one? Five to one? Ten to one?

What is it? It's at least ten to one. It is at least ten to one.

That makes no sense to me. You know, what a country we live in. You know, the public humiliation.

Forget the back surgeries and all that. Do you know how mentally strong you have to be to want to open your door after all the things that happened? Come out of the door.

And then walk, that's what I was going to say, walk through the damn thing? Well, people, there's no doubt. You can follow plenty of athletes through the years. Something about somebody, not just an athlete, but people being at the top, getting torn down, climbing their way back up to that pinnacle again. There's something about that that in the American psyche is a monster, monster deal. And it is exciting, but I still don't get the ten to one thing.

You know, and Brooks is the one. Kefka and I keep saying, I am not getting the respect. I'm not getting the attention. They're not cheering for me as loud. And I keep thinking to myself, I'm not sure I'm going to bring that up, Brooks, because that's not going to change. Now, one way it wouldn't change, go win 27% of your tournaments. It'll change.

It'll change. Because Brooks is easy to root for. He's a fun guy to watch. He's lost his 25 pounds. He's taken a little bit of beating by our buddy Brando Chamblee, who will be on the show soon. But yeah, I don't know.

There's no way, when you're standing around there, to try to figure out the crowd stuff. There's no way to figure it out, because it's like Tiger is the ultimate showman. So we're sitting on the practice tee yesterday watching him, and you know what he does?

So I know a little bit about what's going on. So Tiger's not going to be able to do anything without Joe, because Joe's got the bag in the club, you know? But he's walking around, Pearl. He walked the length of the range behind every player.

Bright red shirt, hat, with something in his, some wedge in his hand, did not hit a ball. So I'm just looking at this from this perspective like, I think he's walking down this tee telling everybody, hey boys, this is mine. That's what I think he was doing. And for nobody else other than himself, probably, because I watched several guys. Oh no.

They know. Like, Koepka didn't even turn around. He was doing his thing.

But you know, Poulter did. Martin Keimer, who was practicing. So I just was watching, and they were all wondering. I'm sure they were going, what you doing? He went to the far end of the range.

And I'm watching Joe. He's already at the other end of the range. So essentially, he's walking there and back.

So they get to see him twice. It was like, yeah, this is what I do. When I thought it was game on, so that's something that happened really kind of right before that, in essence, was at the end of the third round.

I was telling you earlier today. He's up on 18. Joey's kind of right behind his, I think, left shoulder. And they get a great camera shot on the TV of Tiger turn around and has this very sincere, determined grin and kind of half mouths that he has the look of.

Joey, we're right where we need to be. And that look on his face. They always reference the eyes and this and that. Well, that look to me was like, Tiger's like, I'm exactly where I want it to be, where I want to be, and I am thrilled to be there.

After three days, Tiger's like, check every box. Yeah. You're right.

Check every box. That's what I can say. Well, that's going to do it for the on the range segment. We got to take a quick break.

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Welcome back. This is golf with Jay delsing Jay and john are here with you. This is a segment per we call the front nine and each week thank you for the emails and keep them coming in with the questions and just anything golf related concerns you want to talk about equipment. We select your email and you'll receive golf or two at Gateway National compliments of Galter golf blah blah Walters golf management. Well this week Steve writes and I have to even keep a straight face it's a great question but boy we all have this problem can we help can you help me with a mental problem I cannot seem to keep my mind quiet as you read about the game's top players I'm constantly running scenarios in my head can you suggest a way to stop all the noise I am listening no pun intended with open ears here Mr. Delcey I would love to know how to do this. Okay well firstly Steve you know thanks for listening and secondly yeah I think I can give you some some pointers if you like to read Bob Rotel has got several books golf's not a game of perfect and golf is a game of confidence I think I got a chapter in one of those two where I threw Bob for a loop several times and he kept coming back but so what happens with your brain we've learned about this and Pearl you know a little bit about this stuff you use for your business your brain is an accommodating device meaning if you throw in there Steve what's wrong with my putting you're gonna find a lot of answers that are gonna come your way and hell Steve I'm not even gonna say any of them are correct your brain is just gonna search the database and come up with stuff that could be you know wrong with what you know with what you're doing with your putter so I think the biggest thing is you gotta first of all watch the input watch what you let in what do you spend we already know this from a psychological standpoint we we get what we spend most of our time thinking about that's you know there are we're just led in that direction so you've got to really start paying attention to what you put in remember your brain can't determine what's really happened and what hasn't happened because Pearl when you have a dream a vivid dream like how many times you've dreamed of hitting that 12th green at Augusta but you wake up from that dream and go oh man thank god I don't think I hit that 12th green no but we're just making fun of that but Steve that's that's how this works you your brain doesn't know the difference if you're dreaming if or if it's reality so you've really got to be mindful of what you let in there and secondly try to focus on what it is you want not what you don't want you don't step up to the 18th II where there's water on the right and an OB on the left and going well I okay I'd rather hit it in the water than the OB you know you pick out your target you commit to your shot and then you go and if you're getting interference while you're swinging you need to back off and that's what you see these guys do pro yesterday how many times did you see Tiger talking to himself most of it and you know what you know we know he's running through he's running through I got four of these already I've been through that and which guy that was chasing or was involved yesterday can you say had one not major they were major winners but not there it's a different animal well I think a big part of that too Jay and you're a big proponent maybe you can talk on that to answer the question too is what's the process you know what are you into your pre shot routine what do you want to happen when you say be careful what you let in be purposeful of how you're thinking this thing through you watch those guys if something happens and they come off the shot watch them every time they will go through the whole routine some guys will even go back put their club back in the bag to pull or retee their ball up we've seen that happen to go way back it's not just stepping away necessarily it's what's the beginning of their particular routine so Steve from my from a caddy standpoint because I would help Jay with this if something would happen or he would if the goal was on a putt to peak twice and then hit the putt and literally if I would watch him kind of take that third peak I'd pull him off the putt go that's not the routine right the same thing could be on the driver maybe two peaks down the fairway then swing and if he was going to come off that routine I would say something and we would come back and get right back onto it so I think a great routine can help you and I love what Jay said as far as be purposeful of what you're thinking and be positive of what do you want the shot to look like be focused on that and not let that crazy stuff creep into your head but it's a it's a great question because it's it's something even the best in the world struggle with especially like in the Masters when the other guys watch the previous guys keep hitting it in the water all of a sudden it's tough control in that mind no it really is and the other thing let's talk about this just briefly quieting your mind doesn't necessarily mean nothing's going on it doesn't mean that it means that what's going on is all part of the plan and it's all part of what I'm doing and it's and it's it's not trying to undercut or or dissolve confidence or things like that I think anytime it's pressure whether it's at work at home whatever the case is what's your plan get back to the plan execute your plan and be focused and be consumed with that that's how I think you get over that whether it's a golf shot or you're dealing with a big deal at at work yeah absolutely okay back to Augusta I knew you're anxious thanks Steve for that question that was awesome Augusta's on our mind yeah so we put basically put the show together and then we threw it away because of how the whole this whole thing played out because it also played out what were you thinking being down there Jay from the couch you could get you could see as the week was building that this was going to be some special yeah not necessarily the tiger was going to win but the tiger was clearly in the hunt but there was so many guys in the hunt Brandel Chamblee who is so into the details and and all the history and the numbers was talking about well if you're not within one or some shots of the lead if you're not in the top eight you you never win I think all that went out the window because the way it was all bunched up as a matter of fact I know one of the main ones that they were talking about did because I think tires in 10th or 11th at some point when if you weren't the top eight you could never win so when they told him about that last night he started laughing says okay good for me like I don't think that was out his Steve he wasn't thinking about that one out there trust me no no man I just just the when I look back at it now and watching tiger watching that he is going about his business in such a different way than when he was younger and playing on tour he needs to he absolutely does one of the things that stuck out in my mind when we knew we were going to have rain on Sunday they I think it was a Amanda was was interviewing him and said so what does tomorrow look like now you're gonna play at 920 instead of 305 that's a huge difference right and he says well you know I'll get up about 345 or four you know and and so folks just chew on that for a minute so we're gonna get to the golf course you know because he's gonna get a little something to eat a little bit of you know light practice and and warming up on the on the physical aspect what's he doing all those other hours he's getting his body ready absolutely he's on the floor he's working out he's running he's doing all the when he was a young guy he used to run like five miles in the morning before he played I remember the US Open I think it was in one year when there was a rain delay and he actually ran five miles between rounds yeah yeah yeah so there's a reason he's a little bit different out there it totally is and so and they asked Francesco Molinari who by the way started around somewhere in his in his early 30s age-wise Pearl and when he walked up on 18 he looked like he was about 50 I don't know maybe but I'll tell you what he was awesome too you know I appreciate the Tiger one but a lot of these guys played fantastic pressure pressure great I didn't actually expect him to fold but look at the stress on his face the last six holes I thought he was gonna just he needed a you know I don't know what he needed but you know Molinari also very much stood up to Tiger and what beat him at Carnoustie last year oh yeah I think they had a couple one-on-one matches what was it he beat him in Ryder Cup in Chicago I think he did beat or maybe beat him and then I think they tied someplace else so it's not like he was gonna wilt the Tiger he had a great history with Tiger as far as really being competitive well more than competitive and did you see him the picture of him when he caddied for his older brother Eduardo it was awesome and it got paired with Tiger because Eduardo won the US amateur in the tradition there is the the current United States amateur champ gets paired the first day with the defending champ at the Masters and you got Francesco over there it looks you know like a little baby carrying a golf bag it was interesting history and how many times do you see that that somebody was there that ends up being there in the big time you know because you need to see that yes it's special yes it's interesting but they're humans it is possible if you work hard to accomplish these things so I think when you're either that kid that crawled under the fence to get out of the golf course to see those things you hear those stories all the time but you kind of need to see that when you're younger and gives you real clarity of what do I need to do to get there myself I gotta tell you so this is a little bit of a bunny trail but I was down there with Jay Delson golf doing entertainment and hospitality and Emerson's fun phenomenal company that I was able to represent the last four days has Ben Crenshaw coming in to speak with us so there's there's three of us pros Ben's one of them and I'm sitting there and the one of the dads it's just so cool one of the dads brings his son down to experience their first Masters together and and we're sitting there and Ben Crenshaw is is talking and I'm I just had this weird thing when I was at kids age when I was 15 years old I had a favorite player on tour Ben Crenshaw and I have played a hundred rounds of golf with Ben Crenshaw now and I had this this wave of oh man it was almost gratitude and humility and like if you'd have told me when I was 15 that fast forward it and I'm a hundred years old now and I'm and Ben is talking to us and I'm a constituent yeah what ah so our kids having that experience and not only with Ben but with you and interacting with the whole thing and who knows you know part of that too we always talk about the business and personal aspect as well so just as a business guy that young guy wants to do something in business so someday he can be down there with a bunch of business guys interacting having a great time seeing the Masters and and hobnobbing with the top people in in sports and business yeah dude that's that's what my point was who knows yeah what cool things are hitting this this kid at 15 you know because he's a golfer himself he's a scratch golfer he wants to play in college but his dad's a businessman he's down there you know that that's pricey ticket down there when you go to Augusta and then he's got Ben Crenshaw who's played in 42 Masters tournaments been fun to listen to he's great yeah he's one of the most genteel authentic cool friendly people he's kind to you know he just you ask him a question he's like man I don't know how I made that but I was so nervous you know he he did talk about his putting a little bit which is cool you know one of the top three best putters probably of all time well he got this too we got to experience one of the coolest thing has ever happened at the Masters was way he went one right and his interaction with his caddy and all the special second time he won when Harvey Penick died and that sort of thing yes fantastic story and you know he talked about his putting you know what and I'm gonna use that as my tip of the day and our fourth segment we have a new sponsor for our 19th hole that I can't wait to introduce today and we are going to use that tip of the day on our 19th hole so we're not there yet though this is just wrapping up the front nine come back we're gonna have some some messages and you and I pearl head to the back nine at Augusta we'll talk about Amen Corner bring it on and this is golf with Jay delsing on 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get involved in the show by emailing your questions and comments to Jay at Jay Delsing golf.com welcome back this is golf with Jay Delsing I'm your host I'm what am I I'm your host and you are pearly and you're right next to me the assistant host yeah we're headed to the back nine and there's just no way to you know I we've got all this cool information that this show is going to be about and it's going to be for a later time because we're going to talk all Tiger all Masters try to cover some some unique aspects of the tournament that you that you may not know first of all for the person that's never been to Augusta the undulation the ups and downs on the back especially well no the whole place I it was head scratching the first time I saw it you know it's almost where TV almost the only time it can be shown on TV is when the guys get into certain bunkers and then they do a great TV shot of how intimidating that is and how severe it is so if in your mind you can kind of take that and extrapolate to the rest of the golf course because whatever you see the rest of course as far as rolling hills on TV it's five times ten times in person no it isn't and I was taking some groups around you know with with my business and stuff and when they everybody gets to the tenth tee and they look down there and they're like holy smokes man I cannot believe how downhill that shot is and they also said to me I didn't realize you know 10 18 had such dog legs to them and that gets you know that gets overlooked so many times Pearl how about the crazy drive that Roy McElroy hit off the 10th tee I think it was in 2012 when he had a 44 stroke ladies and gentlemen Google that thing you won't believe it this is the best driver of the golf ball that I've ever seen consistently long straight and the tournament was getting away from him at the time he did not have a four stroke lead but he started that day that fourth day with a four stroke lead and he drove the ball 80 yards off the tee and what Pearl 45 yards straight to the left at least yeah at least and who knows what trees rattled around and things like that but yeah you just must have had just a complete mental lapse to do because it's not the Masters could be played for another hundred years and nothing will be within 50 yards where that golf ball was right and most people thought it was out of bounds or like we don't even have a boundary over there because it wasn't even an issue but the Augusta brings so much to the to the table for me Pearl the golf course first of all never ever do you see a golf course the property that is so well maintained and was it really pretty pretty there Jay what were the it was not the azaleas were you know why Pearl we are a little later this year and and some of them are a little tired TV can get TV does a great job of always making it look like they're popping but I've been fortunate to be there down there a time or two sometimes they are sometimes they're not it's always gorgeous don't you don't get it is but sometimes it's it's popping and it is like every hole is like a picture you mentioned number 10 by the way how about the view of the second shot on 10 it's just that next level of majestic and I appreciate when they cover it they talk about the hanging lie yeah but when you've got that downhill hanging lie to that green dead to the bunker to the right who knows what can happen to you to the left it's another one where they do a good job talking about it but until you're there you can't realize how hard that shot is here's another thing that I picked up this year and tens a beautiful example of it the way Mackenzie designed this thing and he had some help from some other great architects even of the golden era of golf architecture but there's so much that makes it so difficult to know how far to hit this ball so 10 to perfect example why is that bunker 60 yards short of that green to mess up your head and distance a hundred percent to catch your eye what's the first it works doesn't it and you think you know pearl we're so trained okay so there's a bunker and I just need to get over it if there's another what 50 60 yards to the to the front edge of the green the other thing that he did almost diabolically is you know he was trying to create a parkland which is an inland golf course that you could kind of play along the ground well that's kind of gone out the window with a modern-day player but what he did pearl he's got so many false fronts and so many huge slopes in those greens that when your balls doesn't get up there it goes into places that you almost can't even play from yeah so many times you just miss the green and other tournaments and you're a step off now you just missed the green by the time it gets done rolling you're 30 yards off on a tight lie into a false front next shot and you don't want to be there anyway because you you know you're a little misstep you're there again yeah and I mean the 14th green is crazy the ninth green is like that so if your ball rolls off the front right part of the ninth green at Augusta you might have an 80-yard shot left yeah you might rather have an 80-yard shot than some of those little tight lies around there but I want to throw something out there too because we talk about how pretty it is and kind of need to get down there whoever has a chance to also get down for the practice round if you don't you know you can't win that lottery ticket situation for the regular you know Thursday through Sunday event but a practice round any of those just to go out on the premises is worth it wouldn't you say 100% and sometimes those practice rounds can even be more fun because you can get a little bit closer in some situations you see the guys interacting differently so and those are fairly readily available relative to regular tournament around so don't hesitate if you could possibly get a chance because if you're a golfer it should be on your bucket list no there's no question I mean every so I was with probably a hundred and fifty guests this week with my business and all of them said whether they were first-timers or not the ones that had been there already said it was a bucket list thing and the first-timers are like this is my bucket list you know I can't I can't wait to get out there so we had a guy he grew up in Augusta Georgia he's an accountant lived with his mother she just passed away he's 73 years old and he collected every year since 1934 what a badge look like that's awesome and he brought it over I took some pictures it's on social media at J delsing on Twitter if you'd like to follow me and took some pictures and it's just crazy so how much did how much did the first ticket in 1934 cost Wow absolutely no idea but I'll say 10 bucks 35 cents and guess where it's written in pen on the day yeah that's awesome yeah I mean it's just and who knew yeah right I mean who do you think Jones and even Jack Stevens who is alive much later you think they had any clue what this is what this is I mean 11 over 11 million dollar purse this we had it we also had a member from Augusta give us some numbers about what they think they make for the week 250 million dollars in seven days you can't buy this stuff online they make over a hundred million dollars in merchandise that's remarkable I try to contribute to it every time I bet it's a special place and you know through the years they've gotten lambasted for multiple different things but you have to appreciate I'll say I appreciate how they've really tried to stand their ground and what they believe keep the tradition you know Jay how well-mannered are the fans for example excuse me the patrons you know they've got a whole vocabulary they have to follow down there as well and it's a special place that way and yes you can rail against some of the things but the other things I appreciate about them is eventually when they hear criticisms that I think they talk about think about and realize are fair they do something so they had the ladies tournament down there that we mentioned last week they have always got that putt chip and drive with the kids so they've come a long way in their way to make that stuff fit there and enhance that event and I think those events have been actually enhanced the Masters because it makes it more or understandable and where people can relate to it more because of it yeah and it's more for everybody you know why do you not look we didn't grow up in a financial situation that might be considered ideal now I think it was ideal we didn't have a whole lot of money but I mean if we were excluded from because of race or ethnicity or crap yeah you know and the other thing that let's talk about this real quickly I can't stand people talking about golf as a rich man rich kid sport I just can't stand it I heard that I heard it so much down at Augusta look we're at where it's a place that's almost so hoity toity it makes you want to puke at certain times and that's like a little baby you know maybe two percent of a hundred percent but it's but look you can go out and play in a municipal golf course for $20 and get yourself a set of clubs for $50 and start loving the game it's very accessible it is that is like and if you think that only the country club kids are the good players completely mistaken and I will say this pearl from the guys on the PGA Tour and our generation they all grew up more like I did you know kind of middle class low to middle class whatever worked worked hard played a lot of sports growing up and then wound up playing golf now today's a little different kids are coached out the wazoo from early ages that's why you're seeing so many of the young players swing almost identically but it doesn't necessarily mean they're wealthy it just means that their parents are trying to do all they can to get this kid in golf yeah I think it's it's accessible and once you kind of get the bug and get the passion to work at it it's 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about it earlier let's get back to the 12th how does this happen I was gonna ask how does this have you there but were you there when anybody's hitting in the water no okay no the I will say this because we left right as they were making the turn at the front end right the amount of crowds you couldn't see anything anyway we would get strategically out there and 25 30 people deep for Tiger Tiger and played with it was Molinari Tiger and Tony Finau in the last group so every year they talk about 12 every year they talk about how Hogan and then Ken Vinturi used to talk about how that breath of air he would sense it and all that kind of stuff obviously there's something there because it messes the guys up 150 yard shot Jay hundred and fifths like 152 152 yard shot nine irons fours nine irons and wedges four of the top players in the world hit it in the water four of six at one point Poulter Koepka Koepka Molinari and Finau they're watching each other so it's not like it's a surprise maybe they should hit it a little bit further the announcers acknowledge it from their perspective anyway they think the guys each look like they had a solid shot and what I said to you before the show which was blowing me away for the most part I think three of them were posing they liked it yeah how many times just in general does a tour player pose on a shot meaning they like it they feel good about it and it end up in the penalty area as they call it these days oh and by the way a couple of those weren't very close it's not like they almost made it they were three four five steps short of me so first of all let's set this up the 12th green sits away from you it angles away from you from the tee box almost 45 degrees from left to right so folks the front right part of the green is an extra six yards of carry compared to the front left part of the green and as a player that's the first thing you are gonna go I gotta watch this but you can't necessarily pick that up by your eye on the tee can you that's very much a yardage it's a yardage book thing it's also an experience thing and I'm gonna tell you what I saw that is so cool because I did watch this yes it looked it no it didn't look like any of those guys miss hit those balls but something happened to get those things in the in the water golf gods but I will say this Tiger set up after watching the two guys in front of the group in front of him this guy knows exactly what's going on by the way so we got Koepka and Polter hitting it in water in front of him who is their third Simpson so Simpson puts it on the green and he did something similar to Tiger to folks that you probably saw you may or may not have picked up on then we get up on who had the honors on number Molinari had the honors and he had been unflappable by the way and rock solids iron guy after ten holes he had seven one putts so rock solid iron guy wasn't too close to the hole but he sure as hell making lots of parts any birdie number eight's doing great stuff and so he hits it in the water Tiger gets up there and completely changes the shot that he was gonna play maybe not completely changes it but let's say this he completely he hit an entirely different shot than the other four guys that hit the ball in the water and I think it's because of its from experience and the shot he hit pearl was a low trappy draw hook there was it wasn't going anywhere near it wasn't going short and it wasn't going right there's two places that's exactly right there's two places it wasn't going you hit the nail on the head and where it was going was left of the flag stick and if anything in that back bunker and that do and and all of which you can make par from and not gonna make far from the water for the record Simpson who likes to move the ball right to left just did the same thing and and there's something about that shot John I will say this you're standing out there with a nine iron the flag sticks on the right you're you're all thinking about we're gonna move this thing from the center of the green to the right right at right at that flag stick and you know what pearl sometimes that ball just doesn't fly there is such a discipline of and especially when you're in that competitive mode that that headspace there's such a discipline to truly be able to hit a shot not at the pin and to your point Jay to not only hit it not at the pin but to move it away from the pin is a mental until you've tried it to do until you've had enough control over your golf ball especially with a short iron and to go I'm gonna go I'm gonna completely accept a shot with this short scoring club that's gonna be 50 feet from the hole first time I ever got on a golf course with a sports psychologist he ran me through Dr. Ogilvy yes he ran me through that type of thing and we would stand on a shot and he'd say you know pins back right he said I want you to hit it at the front left of the green with the draw and I'm what are you talking about and so he was just taking me through the paces and you hear them say a lot of times oh he's gonna hit the safe side of the green whatever the case is sometimes it's super it's easier that way but you can just see as you said Jay with that short iron I'm trying to really get something going here and again to move it away from them hole and start it away from the hole is tough and only Tiger did it and I will tell you this if Tiger Woods had the two-stroke lead like Molinari he's hitting the same shot of course and so Molinari so let's replay that I can't I've got it in my mind's eye but Molinari played the wrong shot because of experience I'm gonna tell you that he played the wrong shot and he will probably say I hit it well and he probably did but Pearl he's got to be aiming at that left-hand bunker now at the time though what did he have a three shot lead was it ten under thirteen under it wasn't two or three shot lead it was so here's another thought right here's another thought I stuff this thing just seconds right stuff I know obviously but if I stuff this thing it's over it's not because we got 13 and 15 apply and that's why that's a bad thought because 13 right there together with you but think about that I promise you his target should have been left bunker I mean front boat I don't know I still when I see that when I saw four guys in a row pose meaning they liked it and it went in the water something was happening but this is what my point is I'm with you with the golf guys I totally sign off on the golf gods but this is where the only two people that played away from the flags to hit the green and everybody else came up short I don't know what it is it is like Augustus got like a wind vortex up there and they you know blow it against the people that I don't know it was great stuff great drama shortest hole in the golf course by the way 152 yards there's more drama there year after year and just just it wasn't over at that point no no so we go to 13 yep they're bombing it they're in play they do all those kinds of things I don't know I must have gone out for a snack or something like that but next time I look up Molinari is out of the first cut he's in what I guess they're calling second cut you know that kind of fringe left so he obviously he wanted to lay it up on the left side that makes sense for the angle but when I saw him in that grass off the fairway I'm thinking you've got to be kidding me how does he let that happen the ball's sitting up a little bit now you couldn't tell from the camera TV shot that there was a limb above him and so that wasn't even I don't think in any of our minds but when that ball's sitting up as you know it's tough to control that that trajectory sometimes because where are you going to hit it on your club face but but just the fact to me that I'm thinking he's not in the fairway what's going on here how did he miss that shot in that fairway 60 yards wide there I mean it's impossible Pearl he was I'm telling you this back nine kicked his ass so much he aged 15 to 20 years and he got out of his well obviously I thought that I thought the announcers you know I'm paying attention to this and I mean I screw all sorts of stuff up but I thought Peter Casas just stepped all over himself on 15 degrees it's like you saw the ball roll up the club face I'm like it didn't roll up the club face you you hit the nail on the head the ball sitting high he's got to hit a 60 degree wedge and he didn't neither of the guys caught the fact that the ball hit the tree you know he didn't hit it fat he just hit it too high if I got the wrong hole is that 15 that's 50 all right yeah I was talking 30 oh no no no that's 15 absolutely I mean no I think he yeah however you want to describe that it was just another one of those places but there's a good example at a tough course under that pressure all of a sudden just to your point aging I promise you when his ball did wasn't in the fairway and he just knows as a great player how much harder he made that shot by not being in the fairway that aged him I'll throw eight years out there just of that one before he hit it no question pro plus you got to remember what's this kid kept going through emotionally right three-stroke lead at 11 now he's what to one back and you know when you feel that kind of yeah that that that blood come out of your head and your feet are 400 pounds you're light-headed and you can't you know that sands run right through your hands you can't grab a hold of that stuff man it just um it um oh I can promise you I don't know if he could have put that ball in the green from the rough air at 15 well that's nowhere near that flag stick pearl no where but that's my point and if he did anywhere near the flag stick he would have had to take one heck of a chance to bump it in or do some crazy again a iffy I'll call it if you like on TV oh it's sitting up just fine not for the shot he had that shot no no that is not that's one where if it sits down a little you're like almost okay you just make sure you get the ball first anyway the other issue is there a pearl if that ball hits one inch sure the green without a little momentum to carry down on the green three steps it's back in the water that's what I'm saying that's what I'm saying so it he could have but he would be risking another aqua oh yeah oh yeah can we move to 16 sure so we move to 16 what what a again just some reason to go to Augusta National you want to just go watch guys play at number 16 and on that particular day and how they just hang that shot out there and it comes off the bank and does all those things I remember one of our ex teammate our teammates from UCLA was very much in the hunt there Corey and whipped it in the water that one time you're thinking how can that happen go stand out there it's not that far off and one of the yeah I mean just the drama one of the things I did in the entertaining portion early in the week is take folks to 16 and show where Tiger played that shot from over the bunker banks it up the hill and so you know once you're once you folks if you ever get a chance not only Augusta you got to go but if you ever get a chance to go to a venue where we play on TV it helps so much to put the pieces together done a pro sure does one other thing to note I think that made things weird out there was you had a golf course that was softer and the greens I think it's safe to say slower than we may have seen them in the last 20 years 15 years that messes with their heads too because they've prepped in their minds they've prepped from their previous years as experience to have a certain speed and there was so many shots and even the announcers were getting thrown off a lot this well he has no chance here on this pitch I'm thinking it's softer than any other year so you didn't have a chance so there was a lot of that type of change too so it was a very different Augusta national than in at least the last several years when it can be firm and lightning fast right right we got to wrap up this Augusta what I know maybe we should do like three whole shows on Augusta but mad golf wins that's all I can say sure golf wins Tiger has done it again just when you think you've seen it all he's gonna you know we haven't seen it all I can't wait for the rest of this year I was gonna say there's momentum no who knows what the heck he can accomplish physically can he hold up he looks pretty good he's got a lot of warm days for the sake of his body and I want to see those other guys coming at him and I think we're gonna see some fun fun golf no three no question what do we have three months and three majors in a row right maybe we have the PGA championship June we have Father's Day in the US Open and the Open Championship is in July let's do briefly the putting tip that Ben Crenshaw gave on Thursday evening at the Champions Retreat it's a spectacular place and folks here's what he said I whenever I was thinking about my stroke how I was my backswing looked how my through swing looked what this was doing what that was doing is when I always without question putted my worst when I was into where I wanted the ball of roll when I was into feeling you know the break and I'm gonna I'm gonna you know hit this thing a cup out or six cups out being at Augusta National he said and when I got my mind engaged out there out towards the hole out towards where I wanted this ball of roll he goes I made more putts than I could even imagine and so the the story to be dad here is quit thinking so much about your putting be a kid stick ball there are some some fundamentals we've talked about those time and time again but not when you're playing not when you're playing just you know relax a little bit that's the other thing he said man when I could keep my hand soft they just felt so good on that putter you know and but Jay wouldn't that feed through the whole bag yeah don't you really want to play the whole game that way do you want to play every sport that way where would you know you don't play any sport with stiff wrists and you know you don't see a guy shoot a free throw in the NBA without that so thinking in hockey if they're if they're really flowing and playing right right so gosh we got Mike Duffy's on is the bringing us this 19th hole this week Mike and his three restaurants Richmond Heights and one in Chesterfield and one at Kirkwood thanks for being on the show we stay tuned and listen for what we're going to do we're gonna put some events together Mike Duffy's we're gonna have a cocktail or two and tell a story awesome if you haven't heard it and um yeah that's that's great man it's gonna wrap up this uh 19th hole this show what a I don't know if I'm taking a breath girl about this it's really great stuff you're gonna linger for a long time good good good fun things and good fun things to come and hopefully Whitmore sponsors this show had a great I know they had people out there watching 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